If you are currently living with a mental illness, it’s important to know how to advocate for yourself and your needs. This can mean educating friends and family about your illness and your needs, speaking up for yourself to your healthcare team, and, sometimes, choosing to tell your manager or human resources department about your…
In the last few decades, medical professionals have stopped looking at our physical and mental health as two separate realms, and focused instead on the relationship between them. The stress that is so common in many mental illnesses can wreak havoc on your physical health, and trying to manage a chronic illness or disability can…
Introduction Global crises include international events such as major wars, drought, famine, revolution, and pandemics, including the COVID-19 pandemic that continues to take thousands of American lives per day, quickly overtaking our previous records for deadliest days in U.S. history. Unfortunately, events like this that wreck our communities and take the lives of our loved…
Last year, we posted an article titled “Mental Illness in America: How Capitalism is Feeding Our Mental Health Crisis“. But that was in 2019, when things were still normal. Now, with the COVID-19 pandemic having changed life as we know it over the past six months, it’s time to re-examine the ways that capitalism –…